Link , Link , Link , Link , Link , Link , [This is the best explanation I've seen of why caregiving belongs in a public investment plan. Like aid for childcare, it's not just a social benefit; it frees people to be more productive], Link , [After voting as a bloc against President Joe Biden's Covid-19 relief bill, congressional Republicans are gearing up to oppose the White House's infrastructure proposal. The GOP knows that it can't allow another big, popular win for Biden, so they're hammering at the price tag in hope of erasing the president's bipartisan support. This is familiar territory for most Republican vets, including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, who called the plan "a Trojan horse" last Wednesday. "It's called infrastructure, but inside the Trojan horse it's going to be more borrowed money and massive tax increases on all the productive parts of our economy," McConnell said. His bit about "tax increases" is aimed squarely at the corporate tax hike that the Biden administration wants to use to pay for the plan. But it's hard to take the GOP seriously on that front, for reasons of its own making.]